Phrase thesaurus
Wait Phrases
112 phrases and expressions related to "wait".
Phrases
- Accident waiting to happen
- All things come to he who waits
- At long last
- Bear with me
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
- Bide your time
- Clock watching
- Come to a screeching halt
- Crying Waiting Hoping (Buddy Holly song)
- Don't hold your breath
- Fashionably late
- Go to a neutral corner
- Good things come to those who wait (Guinness advertising slogan)
- Gotta Serve Somebody (Bob Dylan song)
- Grind to a halt
- Half a jiffy
- Half a mo
- Half a second
- Hang about
- Hang back
- Hang fire
- Hang on
- Hang on a minute
- Hang time
- Hanging on the telephone
- Heart attack waiting to happen
- Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty movie)
- Hold fast
- Hold on
- Hold on a minute
- Hold out for
- Hold that thought
- Hold the phone
- Hold your breath
- Hold your horses
- Holding pattern
- How may I serve you?
- Hurry up and wait
- If drafted, I will not run; if nominated, I will not accept; if elected, I will not serve
- In the meantime
- It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
- Just a question of time
- Kick your heels
- Kill time
- Kill time until time kills you
- Lie in wait
- Mark time
- No man can serve two masters
- Not so fast
- One moment please
- One second
- Patience is a virtue
- Play a waiting game
- Please hold the line
- Pregnant pause
- Pull your weight
- Punching above his weight
- Ready and waiting (alert and prepared for action)
- Right off the bat (A baseball expression meaning immediately without delay)
- Serve and protect
- Serve your time
- Sit it out
- Sit on your hands
- Sit tight
- Sleep on it
- Stand by
- Stood up
- Take the weight off your feet
- Taste, not waist (Weight Watchers Frozen Meals advertising slogan)
- The Human Rain Delay (Nickname of Mike Hargrove)
- The Waiter (Nickname of Toni Kukoc)
- The clock is ticking
- The patience of Job
- The pause that refreshes (Coca Cola advertising slogan)
- The wait is over
- They also serve who only stand and wait (from a poem by Milton)
- Throw your weight about
- Time and tide wait for no man
- Time on your hands
- Time to kill
- Time waits for no man
- Twist in the wind
- Victory won't wait for the nation that's late (Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan)
- Wait in line
- Wait just a cotton picking minute
- Waiter, there's a fly in my soup
- Waiting by the phone
- Waiting for Godot (play by Samuel Beckett)
- Waiting for Mr Right
- Waiting for the other shoe to drop
- Waiting in the wings
- Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door (Beatles song lyric)
- Watched pot never boils
- Watching the clock
- Watching your weight
- We will cross that bridge when we come to it
- Weight off my mind
- While away the hours
- While away the time
- Worth one's weight in gold
- You cannot serve God and Mammon
- You have the right to remain silent
Related
- Good things come to those who wait (Guinness advertising slogan)
- Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty movie)
- Hurry up and wait
- Lie in wait
- The wait is over
- They also serve who only stand and wait (from a poem by Milton)
- Time and tide wait for no man
- Victory won't wait for the nation that's late (Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan)
- Wait in line
- Wait just a cotton picking minute